Here’s why…
“#GlobalBroiling” describes increasing solar UV-B radiation, making it through Earth’s atmosphere to the surface of our planet. #UVBroiling is happening all over the world, with increasing intensity & incidence.
Boreal deforestation and marine phytoplankton loss have reduced stratospheric aerosol terpenes by fifty percent in the last seventy years.
Cannabis is the only crop that can replenish Earth’s atmosphere with aerosol terpenes in the time that we may have left to make a difference.
Time is the limiting factor in the equation of survival. Time is the only thing we can’t make more of. Time is the NFT of the 21st century. If we run out of time, then money loses all value. Cannabis solves several major global imbalances at the same time. That makes #hemp more valuable than the money that’s needed to scale-up regional processing infrastructure before Fall Harvest 2025. Anyone who isn’t growing hemp for seed & stalk in their region is food & energy insecure. Whatever people depend on for those things now may not be available very soon for a variety of reasons.
When President Trump signed the 2018 Farm Bill, he reintroduced #Cannabis #hemp to American farms for the first time in seventy years. It is by far his greatest achievement, though he’s yet to understand fully why that’s undeniably true.
To finally resolve systemic imbalances imposed by “Reefer Madness,” that continue to obviate a true, free market; the Earth-healing, #Cannabis #hemp industry would benefit from perspectives being offered for more than thirty-three years.
There would be enormous benefit to President Trump‘s new administration in appointing a National Cannabis Scholar, to establish a realistic, “outside the bong” assessment of Cannabis value. National security and global integrity depend upon regional resilience and “#Gaiatherapeutic_Industry.”
“Essential military and civilian demand” (EO 12919,13603) for #Cannabis “#hemp” is an accelerated federal protocol affording access to “#strategic” resources. Hemp has been identified as being strategic to national security in seven Presidential Executive Orders since 1942, signed by FDR, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Nixon, Clinton & Obama.
The historical precedent for what needs to happen in Spring 2025 is the “#Hemp_For_Victory!” campaign in 1942, that produced fuel, food & fiber feedstocks, that were critical to supplying the War Department during World War Two. Responsible emergency preparedness measures in CFR44 (Part 334.1 (b) - Graduated Mobilization Response, GMR) “Establishes a system for developing and implementing mobilization actions that are responsive to a wide range of national security threats and ambiguous or specific warning indicators. GMR provides for a coherent decision-making process with which to proceed with specific responses to an identified crisis or emergency.”
Global Broiling is the “identified crisis.” Increased solar UV-B suppresses immune response, causes genetic mutation, abnormal cell division (cataracts & cancers), global temperature increase, reduced harvests, hotter forest fires, soil microbiome damage, phytoplankton & forest destruction, accelerated materials degeneration and increased solubility of mercury, arsenic, and selenium compounds out of aqueous solution.
Paul J. von Hartmann, Cannabis scholar, photographer